Warning: Level 5 Punctuation Emergency!

[jebenson]

http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/commas_turning_up

We need, to, formulate a, plan of, action...quickl,y!



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[AnotherHiggins]

Thanks, for the link.

I really like the way the article....

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[Stella740pl]

What have you got in that article?

Our firewall blocked me from accessing it for adult/mature contents.

May look at it at home - if and when I remember about it.

 

[AnotherHiggins]

From

http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/commas_turning_up

(The Onion - America's Finest News Source)

Commas, Turning Up, Everywhere
April 25, 2008 | Issue 44•17

WASHINGTON—In the midst of a crisis that may have reached a breaking, point Tuesday afternoon, linguists, and grammarians, everywhere say they are baffled, by the sudden and seemingly random, appearance of commas, in our nation's sentences. The epidemic of errant punctuation has spread, like wildfire, since signs of the epidemic first, appeared in a Washington Post article, on Federal Reserve Chairman, Ben, Bernanke. "This, is an unsettling trend," columnist William Sa,fire, told reporters. "We're seeing a collapse of the grammatical rules that have, held, the English language, together for, centuries." Experts warn, that if this same, phenomenon, should occur with ellipses...

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[Stella740pl]

Thanks.

Adult content indeed. It probably reacts this way on the whole "Onion" site.

 

[AnotherHiggins]

I imagine so. They do get a bit saucy at times.

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[BobRodes]

For another particularly egregious example of this unfortunate modern phenomenon, see

http://www.ushistory.org/valleyforge/washington/letter.html.